Newly excavated cuneiform inscriptions belonging to Armenian Iron Age King Menua of the Van dynasty (aka Urartu/Vannic kingdom) in Berkri area (east shore of Lake Van) adjacent to the castle he built (called Muradiye by the current occupants). Asking a friend to help decipher it
@WIREDScience
But just because someone feels a certain way about being classified in the wrong sex, biology doesn't really care. Once trans boxers start killing cis-athletes in the ring, the narrative may change. Really don't care about individual sports records but phys competition is deadly
Democracy died today. Traded in for a few oil barrels. The world is darker without Artsakh. Enabling a totalitarian dictatorship & crushing democratic ideals of a free people by charlatans & hypocrites is exactly what was done. Emboldening brutal dictatorships has consequences.
Azerbaijan is simply North Korea with more oil & significantly more genocidal zeal. Remember this any time any Aliyev shills pretend their delusions have merit.
#Azerbaijan
has killed 7
#Armenian
Prisoners of War.
In a newly emerged graphic video Azerbaijani soldiers killed 7 surrendered Armenian soldiers during the recent clashes that happened on September 13.
What kind of peace era is Aliyev preparing?
Dear diasporans with dreams of moving to Armenia, please don't go there with a savior complex. You will learn as much from Hayastan as Hayastan may learn from you. It's a mutual exchange for mutual benefits. Don't look down on the people there because they think differently.
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When your ethnic brethren are under siege by a brutally corrupt oppressive dictatorship enabled by Western nations who claim to support democracy & human rights, you make noise. Some voices like
@karenkhachanov
are certainly louder. Thank you eghpayr!
@SlavaMalamud
Up next, how Cheburashka nostalgia is a Soviet plot by a cabal of elderly communists within Putin's inner circle to unite the Warsaw pact
Artsakh (and soon the rest of Armenia) is a hard lesson but if you're going to trade security for "liberty", you better have the means to defend yourself. Don't fall for wide eyed lies about democracy & human rights by scoundrels who could care less if you cease to exist.
There's a reason Yerevan was listed by UNESCO as the World Book Capital in 2012. Literature is the backbone of Armenian society, from rich to poor, fruit vendor to banker, taxi driver to airline pilot and everything in between.
When Sis fell to the Mamluks in 1374, the last Armenian king of Cilicia (Levon V) took refuge in the only remaining stronghold, Kapan (Cilician Kapan), lasting one additional year. Unfortunately, the conquest of 1375 put an end to the final Armenian Kingdom.
The failure of Artsakh's independence was a collective effort. We could have made Artsakh into an impregnable fortress, impossible for genocidal lunatics to invade. We had nearly 30 years. Other than our heroic defenders, the rest of us should be ashamed. We let them all down.
ATTENTION ARMENIAN TWITTER
🇦🇲 🇦🇲 🇦🇲
STOP SHARING UNOFFICIAL VIDEOS & PHOTOS! YOU'RE POTENTIALLY GIVING AWAY OUR POSITIONS TO THE ADVERSARY!
DO NOT BE PART OF THE PROBLEM. IF I SEE SUCH FLAGRANT DISREGARD, I'M CALLING YOU OUT & ASKING EVERYONE ELSE TO DO THE SAME.
#ՀԱԽԹԵԼՈՒԵՆՔ
This needs to be shared frequently, as a reminder to the envious revisionist East & West that Shushi is Armenian, Artsakh is Armenian & no amount of posturing will change reality.
@ukr_arthistory
@metmuseum
He was ethnically Armenian, political problems of modern borders solved. It's that simple. He was an ethnic Armenian, born in Crimea, a subject of the Russian Empire at the time.
To use someone else's art,there's nothing wrong with that
#Armenia
, you still steal our art today, perform our songs, translate them into 🇦🇲, and do not want to recognize them openly, but do it stealthily, but then seriously dismiss your own.Don't you have anything of your own?
Exactly this! Azerbaijan has no limits, they will not stop unless they're stopped. They have designs on all of Armenia. Their cries of territorial integrity is just lumps of offal for naive fools to swallow. Don't allow anyone to be gullible enough to think Aliyev has limits.
Reminder that if every Armenian left Artsakh and Azerbaijan had full control, there still wouldn't be peace with AZ.
Aliyev on "Western AZ" (the parts of Armenia AZ regularly attacks): "Present-day Armenia is our land; we need to develop a concept of returning to Western AZ."
Only four countries had more population loss (as a percentage of the population) than Armenia did during WWII, & the losses of Armenians were strictly limited to military involvement in distant campaigns. Nearly half of all soldiers lost their lives heroically defeating fascism.
The area around Gandzasar in Artsakh has been continuously inhabited by Armenians for millenia. The principality of Khachen was served by the Hasan Jalalyan family for almost 1000 years & formed the nucleus of Artsakh. Khokhanaberd is also located within the Vank area.
Some progress in deciphering Menua's recently uncovered inscription in the Van region. The remaining 40% is the real challenge, separating the geeks from the nerds. 🤥🤓
Newly excavated cuneiform inscriptions belonging to Armenian Iron Age King Menua of the Van dynasty (aka Urartu/Vannic kingdom) in Berkri area (east shore of Lake Van) adjacent to the castle he built (called Muradiye by the current occupants). Asking a friend to help decipher it
Ardvi village, Lori province, Armenia is an overlooked place that deserves a visit. Besides the khatxhkar field, some from the 11th century and apparently one from the 9th, there's also a cave with a small spring trickling out called Odzi Port/Օձի պորտ (snake's navel).
18th century Tatar massacres, never again, 1880s Hamidian massacres, never again, 1915-1923 Armenian Genocide, never again, 1919-1920 Shushi pogroms, never again, Baku Sumgayit 1988, never again. When it comes to Armenians, never again with these "neighbors" is simply yet again
@maxfras
Minimum 12 attempts, six hours later & bags of food for the journey to be allowed to even think of leaving, followed by three more hours in the doorway saying goodbyes
This is Hadjin, the town in mountainous Cilicia, where most of my maternal family line originated. Best I can tell, I'm a bit over 7/16th Hadjntsi (7/16 maternal, trace ancestry from 300 years ago from my paternal grandmother's paternal line). Currently renamed Saimbeyli.
Give them an inch, they'll take a mile, give them a mile, they'll take it all. If you still think they'll stop at these "villages" (how will they "ensure their protection") just accept you're too gullible to have an adult conversation. Perhaps discus with flat Earthers.
The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry has issued an ultimatum to Armenia, demanding the return of 8 "occupied Azerbaijani" villages. The enclave villages that Azerbaijan is demanding are in the Tavush and Ararat provinces of Armenia.
The full statement by Azerbaijan’s FM states that
For my money, there's no better season in Armenia to visit Garni & Gerhard than winter (after copious snowfall). The roads may be treacherous but the views are magical. Every valley, every canyon has its own microclimate.
Every single one of our ancestors who managed to escape the Armenian Genocide did so under near miraculous circumstances. None of these survival events should be taken lightly. The sieve through which they made it was unimaginably brutal & recognition is still an uphill battle.
🖤 My grandfather’s family has gone through the Genocide of 1915.
My great grandfather was killed by turks and my great grandmother was able to escape to Greece with her children.
The Forget-Me-Not-Flower tattoo is even more dear to my heart.
#NeverForget
#ArmenianGenocide
He who destroys this stele, he who profanes it, he who steals it, he who buries it in the earth, ... he who proclaims "It is I who carried out these works", replacing his own in place of my name, may he be destroyed...may there not be either his name nor his family under the sun.
🧵 Despite persistent efforts, we are currently unable to deliver aid via the Lachin corridor & other routes, including Aghdam.
With these convoys blocked, our concern is that the humanitarian situation will further deteriorate.
The Armenian Genocide was real
My paternal great grandfather: orphan
Paternal great grandmother: orphan
Other Paternal great grandfather: organizer of Musa Ler resistance
Other paternal great grandmother: Kessabtsi, lucked out being in Syria
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There just aren't enough words for this degree of tone deaf, intentionally oblivious shiteating grin. I had to block her face to save you from the same level of rage. It's only when you're living in a completely isolated Marie Antoinette bubble that you can't read the room.
It's Armenian Christmas & the only thing on my mind is how thousands of Artsakhtsis died & 100,000 were forcibly displaced for the sins & arrogance of enemies both foreign & domestic. To those who thought Artsakh a burden & those directly targeting, may Judas' fate befall yours.
Look, more Azeri tombs...oh wait, that's from Qarashamb, in Armenia. A Bronze Age site of the local Etiuni inhabitants with recent aDNA indicating the IE steppe influx of Catacomb culture. Modern Armenians are an admixture of this & Van era Urartian inhabitants.
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As painful as the Artsakh situation is, don't succumb to numbness & apathy. It may be Artsakh today, Armenia tomorrow, Armenians in the diaspora next. As emotionally difficult as it is, stay engaged, stay aware, help in whatever possible possible. Inaction breeds anxiety/despair
Any time Azerbaijan has conveniently discovered mass graves (usually during global criticism for their atrocious behavior or calling out their dictatorship), they refuse to send the remains for genetic testing. Don't you owe it to the families to recover their remains, if true?
Turkey has not changed one bit since 1915 and the longer the Armenian Genocide goes unrecognized, the longer this becomes normalized. As for Azerbaijan,
#SanctionAzerbaijan
&
#SanctionTurkey
because war crimes cannot go unpunished. It only further enables it.
Turks: The Armenian Genocide didn’t happen.
Also Turks: “I remind you once again that the Turkish Nation has the power to erase Armenia from history and geography…”
When Azerbaijan attacked Artsakh, this guy was quiet, as Azerbaijan imposes a humanitarian disaster level blockade, he is quiet.
@SecBlinken
, at what point will you call out Baku as the oppressive dictatorship that it is? By remaining silent, you've neutered your own rhetoric.
As I said to the
@UN
Security Council, hunger and conflict are inextricably linked. We must stop the weaponization of hunger, beginning with Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and its assault on the global food system. Failure to act now will have dire consequences.
The majority population of Artsakh has indeed been ethnic Armenian for thousands of years. This much is indisputable to any credible historical investigation. The people of Artsakh have a RIGHT to exercise their self determination, regardless of international recognition.
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Armenians, I support those of you who want to take the high road, refusing to dehumanize the adversary, I also support those of you so livid at the actions of the adversary that you refuse to give them the benefit of doubt. I understand you both because I am both 🇦🇲🇦🇲
🖕🇦🇿🇹🇷🖕
The public narrative is shifting, the guilty party, Azerbaijan, is being named. Yet, what's to prevent them from further atrocities & further attacks? Where's the real consequences? Rhetoric is great but
#SanctionAzerbaijan
for their behavior or expect endless war
Does anyone seriously think Azerbaijan will persecute anyone for the blatant
#azeriwarcrimes
they were filmed committing, or for any they've just as brazenly committed before?
#SanctionAzerbaijan
because it's a terrorist state but we know they'll continue to get away with it.
A healthy Armenian government would have recalled this little shameless cընt & immediately sent him back to Tel Aviv. An Armenian national hero that liberated Syunik from genocidal barbarians is beyond reproach by a dung beetle like Joel to criticize & denigrate.
Armenians have truth, history, justice, culture, science & enlightenment, the adversary has envy, oil money & the tacitly enabled support of hypocrites & military industrial complex profiteers. That's all this is. Turkey & Azerbaijan built on lies, blood & petrodollar savagery.
Guess when you show documented proof out to trash Azi sites that the founding of Shushi predates the 18th century by a good 300 years, you'll be blocked because the truth hurts their delicate revisionist disposition.
When Azerbaijan was committing war crimes for 44 days during the fall war & continued to do so after the ceasefire was ratified (capturing POWs), it's only now when Armenia's undergoing difficult elections that there's some media traction & we're visible?
Garni isn't the only surviving pagan temple in Armenia, though it's the only throughly reconstructed one. Another precious find is the temple of Hoghmik (Հողմիկ) located in NW Armenia, roughly between Gyumri & Ashotsk.
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Everyone should travel to Baku, speak in Armenian, wear an Armenian language t-shirt & prove just how tolerant & peaceful of a totally non oppressive autocratic cesspool it is.
This b!tch can't be for real. What next? Voluntary expulsion? Auto-exile? Non violent purging? Western caravan expedition? Total population auto-displacement?
Most Armenians have been warning of this since 2020. It was never about territorial integrity for Azerbaijan. It's always been about subjugation, expansionism, graft & economic leverage to further isolate Armenia. Tolerating one autocrat enables every other one.
Armenia has no allies, it never did. The simple fact that such egregious revisionism & erasure was not just ignored by the world world at large but the government responsible for it was enabled to continue behaving in this manner & treated as legitimate should never be forgotten.
This image has never left my mind:
An Armenian bishop in Iran crying as he prays, helpless, as Azerbaijani authorities bulldoze the Armenian New Julfa cemetery behind him across the border
Even Armenian dead are considered threats by Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan is an oppressively brutal oil rich petrodictatorship proving that the West is a hypocritical shill that will readily abandon its purported values for a few drops of oil.
Azerbaijan has taken advantage of the world's focus on Ukraine to blockade the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, creating a crisis of food and health care -- and it's getting worse.
When Artsakh becomes an internationally recognized republic, it'll only be the 3rd double landlocked country in the world (after Uzbekistan & Liechtenstein).
1st, in the middle of the summer heat wave Baku cuts off the water, now, in the middle of a late winter cold spell, they cut off gas, next it'll probably be electricity. This is state sanctioned terror while the world is distracted. But we already know we're lesser human beings.
#Azerbaijan
uses every opportunity to disturb normal life in
#Artsakh
.
Those in Baku think these steps will eventually push people to think of leaving their homeland.
#NagornoKarabakh
people faced 3 aggressions for the last 3 decades; their resistance has no boundaries.
It's really quite simple, if Azerbaijan & Turkey are not included among the most dangerously autocratic governments around, in the same breath as North Korea, then your opinion doesn't count. Actively genocidal nations should be called out, not enabled by hypocritical cretins.
When you're stuck trying to decipher newly uncovered ancient Urartian inscriptions in the Eastern Lake Van area, it helps to lay out all the available materials at your disposal & work from there. As amateurs, we don't live in unaccessible ivory towers. Still a work in progress.
Just a reminder that Artsakh was just ethnically cleansed & the perpetrators now have similar designs on Syunik, Tavush & Vayots Dzor. Don't let Azerbaijan's crimes be buried by other attention garnering events. Baku terrorists robbed the innocence of these precious children
4-year-old Mika, a refugee living in a restaurant in Bambakashen with 30 others, overheard me speaking in the Artsakh dialect today while we were with the
@AGBU
program providing food. His eyes filled with hope as he asked, "Did you come to take us back home?"
Hey,
@StateDept
some job you're doing. How about
#SanctionAzerbaijan
I'm sure
@SecBlinken
feels no responsibility for this after coddling one of the world most brutally oppressive dictatorships. This is ethnic cleansing in front of your eyes.
May nobody ever again wonder how it's possible to commit ethnic cleansing under the watchful eye of the world. This is an existential issue and nothing short of our successful resistance will suffice. We will fight on because there is no other option with this genocidal adversary
Great job illustrating the uphill battle we have against Azerbaijan's revisionism
@algalitsky
! The truth is the West doesn't really care what is just or fair because oil trumps their ethical/moral responsibility they do enjoy perpetuating as their mythos.
Look, more Azeri inhumations. This time, from the 11th century in the Aghtsk necropolis....no wait, these are Christian burials. In all seriousness, the recent bodies uncovered in Artsakh coinciding with the blatant war crimes Azerbaijan committed need to be genetically analyzed.
I know Ukraine isn't Artsakh & the geopolitical situation is very different but because the aggressor is Russia, favored bogeyman, it's page 1 news everywhere, yet, when the aggressor is Azerbaijan or Turkey, all we get are crickets. They can commit Genocide w/out accountability.
Attention 🇦🇲🇦🇲 Twitter
For the sake of our troops, please refrain from displaying cynicism, hopelessness or despair. Though we're aware of their sacrifices, we must be strong. We should be an extention of our mountains; stalwart, resolute & determined.
#BeOurMountains
@AvetissianAn
@RaffiElliott
Why not? Send them to Armenia. Azerbaijan can block them if they like but they're more than welcome to Armenia. Khorovats on me
Though the Armenian Genocide occurred from 1915-1923, countless massacres, pogroms & savage acts of state backed violence were perpetrated in the preceeding decades. Depopulation of Armenians, forced assimilation into invader culture & erasure stretches back centuries.
People falsely assume iron production started in the Iron Age but in reality, iron was already being utilized for certain purposes (in the Armenian Highlands), such as this horse bit from the Karmir Blur Necropolis, as early as the Late Bronze Age. What then determines the era?
Armenians around the world start & end their day hoping Azerbaijan has not resumed new hostilities & dreading what seems to be the inevitable. Meanwhile, Azeris hope beyond hope for another genocide that erases Armenia & Armenians off the map. Հիվանդ են
Azerbaijani state Az Tv channel goes beyond imagination in its aggressive propaganda by asking people to vote if they want Azerbaijan attack Artsakh again. As you see 83% vote for the aggression...This is how Azerbaijan prepares people to "peace" with Armenians.
@esnika_
What you've been through? Every Armenian, Greek & Assyrian is laughing because imagine what you've been through amplified by Genocide, denial & cultural appropriation & cultural revisionism. There isn't much sympathy for this very reason
If there was any question about Armenians being indigenous to the Armenian Highlands, I think these reconstructions (in addition to genetic ones) help settle it.
The homicide rate in Armenian is lower than any of the neighboring nations and if it weren't for the existential crisis created by two hostile genocidal neighbors in particular, no country's future would look brighter.
Headstone in Vorotnavank, Syunik Provice Armenia (dated to 10th-11th century). The riches we have in Syunik are priceless, but to enemy forces fueled by hate, erasure, envy & revisionism, they're as endangered as Armenian lives. Don't let
@Tom_deWaal
& others downplay the threat.
Clueless non-Armenian friend you haven't seen 4 years. "hey, how have you been?"
Arm: "been better"
Friend: "why?"
Arm: "how much time have you got?"
F: "not mu"
Arm: "it was the Bronze Age, suddenly over the horizon... (9 hours later) & then they brazenly executed all 7.."
Perhaps every time Azeris post a war crime video, someone should execute a puppy. Perhaps that way, it'll get some kind of global attention, any kind of attention.
To
@F1
@Imaginedragons
@vonderleyen
& all other enablers of Baku's oppressive dictatorship, you've signed the death warrant of countless Armenians. All you've done is enable a brutally oppressive dictatorship & trading petro-enamas to stand on genocide perpetrator side of history
BREAKING:
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of
#Europe
just adopted resolution of "Ensuring free & safe access through the Lachin Corridor".
#Azerbaijani
delegation did everything to defeat its adoption, but failed.
@TurkDNAProject
It doesn't matter what language is spoken in the region, Armenians are a conserved population w/ indigenous Highland ancestry dating to the Bronze Age, along w/ Assyrians (the ones from the Highlands are similarly indigenous). There are differences stemming from the Bronze Age
If Macron truly did say "I am exerting more pressure on Aliyev than Pashinyan himself. The issue lies with Pashinyan. I have a clear position on Artsakh." That's impressive but also quite embarrassing for Armenian leadership. Even the French acknowledge Pashik's spinlessness.
French President Emmanuel Macron visited Marseille and met with various influential circles, including those from economic, artistic, political, community, sports, cultural, commercial, and scientific-educational backgrounds, whom he personally invited.
During a meeting with the
@SaraHirschhorn1
You people in the West who stayed silent & enabled a bloodthirsty tyrant keep thinking up new terms to whitewash the ethnic cleansing that very clearly is occurring.
"What message does it send if the international community stands united behind Ukraine amid a corrupt, despotic regime’s barbaric assault on its territorial integrity but then ignores when Azerbaijan uses aggression against Armenia?"
@algalitsky
.
@StateDept
In Armenian, morsel-picker (պատառ-ա-քաղ)=fork. The constructive quality of Armenian doesn't get enough credit, as many terms are a product of compounding two roots together. If Legos were languages, Armenian would certainly be a best selling set.
Azerbaijan doesn't care about territorial integrity, that's simply the lie they feed to set the stage for ethnic cleansing of Armenians. Their ambitions extend across all of Armenia. What else can be expected from a brutally totalitarian states?
@vonderleyen
reliable partner
Araksya Arustamyan’s house in Sotk was shelled during the Azerbaijani attacks last September. She says AZ’s regular ceasefire violations in Sotk won’t force her out of her home.
Azerbaijan will not stop attacking civilian areas in pursuit of its territorial ambitions in Armenia.
She's only parroting what the
@StateDept
&
@SecBlinken
actually pretend to believe. They're not even this gullible as they know full well Baku's true intentions. They simply don't care, as long as Artsakh disappears so they can focus on containing Iran without extra variables
So after ignoring the aggression by the autocratic petrodictatorship of Azerbaijan against a democratic Armenia, with the explicit illegal interference of authoritarian Turkey, these clowns use Armenia as an example for human rights abuses? Really? Hypocritical vultures!!!
Today is the International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief! The European Convention on Human Rights guarantees freedom of religion across Europe. Watch this video to find out more: 👇
A legend died today. His name may not be as familiar to most people but his impact on the lives of thousands is immeasurable. The death of every pioneer in their respective field stings like a thousand hornets but they're immortalized by their impact on their follow humans